xcpretty
is a fast and flexible formatter for xcodebuild
.
It does one thing, and it should do it well.
$ gem install xcpretty
$ xcodebuild [flags] | xcpretty
xcpretty
is designed to be piped with xcodebuild
and thus keeping 100%
compatibility with it. It's even a bit faster than xcodebuild
itself, since
it saves your terminal some prints.
Important: If you're running xcpretty
on a CI like Travis or Jenkins, you
may want to exit with same status code as xcodebuild
.
CI systems usually use status codes to determine if the build has failed.
$ set -o pipefail && xcodebuild [flags] | xcpretty
#
# OR
#
$ xcodebuild [flags] | xcpretty && exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}
You might want to use xcpretty
together with tee
to store the raw log in a
file, and get the pretty output in the terminal. This might be useful if you
want to inspect a failure in detail and aren't able to tell from the pretty
output.
Here's a way of doing it:
$ xcodebuild [flags] | tee xcodebuild.log | xcpretty
-
--tap
(Test Anything Protocol-compatible output) -
--knock
,-k
(a simplified version of the Test Anything Protocol)
--[no-]color
: Show build icons in color. (you can add it to--simple
or--test
format). Defaults to auto-detecting color availability.--[no-]utf
: Use unicode characters in build output or only ASCII. Defaults to auto-detecting the current locale.
-
--report junit
,-r junit
: Creates a JUnit-style XML report atbuild/reports/junit.xml
, compatible with Jenkins and TeamCity CI. -
--report html
,-r html
: Creates a simple HTML report atbuild/reports/tests.html
. -
--report json-compilation-database
,-r json-compilation-database
: Creates a JSON compilation database atbuild/reports/compilation.json
. This is a format to replay single compilations independently of the build system.
Writing a report to a custom path can be specified using --output PATH
.
xcpretty
supports custom formatters through the use of the
--formatter
flag, which takes a path to a file as an argument. The
file must contain a Ruby subclass of XCPretty::Formatter
, and
return that class at the end of te file. The class
can override the format_*
methods to hook into output parsing
events.
- xcpretty-travis-formatter: support for cleaner output in TravisCI using code folding
The recommended format is a gem containing the formatter and named
with an xcpretty-
prefix, for easier discovery.